Blenheim Palace and Stowe House are in turn linked in that Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, who developed the house and gardens at Stowe in the early eighteenth century, was a notable officer serving under the Duke of Marlborough.
Sir Richard Temple, 1st Baronet (1826–1902), British colonial administrator and politician
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Sir Richard Carnac Temple (1850–1931), Nineteenth century writer on India and Burma.
Born at Stowe House, Buckinghamshire, Buckingham was the son of the Earl Temple (later created The 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos) and Lady Anne, daughter of The 3rd Duke of Chandos.
After Walpole's fall as Prime Minister in 1742, they turned their attacks on his replacement – a government led by Lord Wilmington and Carteret.
The manuscripts were originally collected by The 1st Marquess of Buckingham (1753 - 1813) and his son, The 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos (1776 - 1839), at Stowe House near Buckingham.
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The line was to be worked from the outset by the London and North Western Railway (LNWR) which had supported the building of the line and which was represented on the board of the Buckinghamshire Railway by Edward Watkin who, together with the Duke of Buckingham and local landowner Sir Harry Verney M.P., was one of the driving forces behind the line.
The painting passed through descent within the Chandos title until Richard Temple-Grenville, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos sold it to the Earl of Ellesmere in 1848.
Henry Grenville (governor of Barbados in 1746 and ambassador to the Ottoman Porte in 1762), a younger brother of the 1st Earl Temple and of George Grenville.